371. The Defiant Ones
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid capture.
372. Paris, Texas
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Aurore Clément, Dean Stockwell, Socorro Valdez, Nastassja Kinski, Hunter Carson
Plot: A wondering man is discovered by his brother in the desert. The man has
lost his memory but quickly remembers his horrible past and begins to
interact with them.
373. Empire of the Sun
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips
Plot: A young, privileged boy is separated from his family after the Japanese invade British-controlled areas of China. Sent to a British internment camp where is attempts to capture some of his former life while affecting the adults around him.
374. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood
Plot: A drunk man, who hurt himself hurtling on his old high school track, has a lack-luster marriage and a father, that he doesn't really know, who is about to die.
375. Peeping Tom
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Powell
Actors: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Michael Goodliffe, Shirley Anne Field
Plot: A lonely, repressed young man's life revolves around the camera: when not working for film studio or proving pornographic pictures for a local shop, he's exploring the depths of fear as he films women while murdering them.
376. The Place Beyond the Pines
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Bruce Greenwood
Plot: A daredevil motorcyclist quits his carnival job when he learns a former lover has a son - and he now has a family. In order to provide for them, he takes on a series of bank robberies, putting all his riding skills to good use. But this puts him on a crash course with an ambitious police officer looking for a quick way to rise through the ranks of his corrupt precinct. Over the course of 15 years, the story unfolds, leaving a legacy for their children - who will have to face the consequences of these actions.
377. Tale of Two Sisters, A ( Janghwa, Hongryeon )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Actors: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim, Seung-bi Lee, Geun-yeong Mun
Plot: Two girls return from a hospital stay to a foreboding house where their cold, distant father, a seemingly unstable step mother and a vengeful ghost make their lives dark and mysterious.
378. Scrooge ( Christmas Carol, A 1951 )
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Actors: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, George Cole
Plot: Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic.
379. Mud
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Nichols
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Michael Shannon, Matthew McConaughey, Sam Shepard, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon
Plot: A fugitive looking to reunite with the love of his life happens across two teenage boys and the three form a pact to help him evade his pursuers and complete his quest.
380. Mirror, The ( Zerkalo )
Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Tamara Ogorodnikova
Plot: A Russian man in his 40s is going to die - he reflects back on growing up during WWII, his adolescence and family in a film that mixes flashbacks with historical footage to tell a personal story but also explore the story of Russia itself.
